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Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:10 PM Mar 2012

Are you seeing more than the ususal amount of people wearing hoodies?

I was out and about earlier today, which included a stop at the Mall. I was in a store, waiting to be helped. I engaged in conversation a woman who was just ahead of me in line. She was my age, maybe a few years younger (I am a geezer). She had on a hoodie. It was cool here today, so a hoodie was actually appropriate, but not pulled up inside the always-70-degree Mall.

We were in a store that sells (relatively) high value small items that are easy to steal, and commonly are. We talked about that for a bit. The conversation got around to the Trayvon Martin case ( I kinda steered it there, but not in too obvious a way.)

Yup, she was not a normal hoodie wearer. She was wearing hers with the hood up as a statement.

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grasswire

(50,130 posts)
2. my favorite shirt is a hoodie
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:42 PM
Mar 2012

Lime green. I wear it nearly every time I go out, either under a jacket or over a collared shirt of one kind or another. I love it. That hood is useful when the wind comes up or rain sprinkles.

But in the last few days I have noticed many many people wearing hoodies on the bus, at the store, on the street. And I live in a more white than not community.

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
3. It's cooling back down here after that heat wave
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:43 PM
Mar 2012

I'm wearing one today. Of course I probably would have anyway.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
6. I would be if I had one but my little great granddaughter wore one for me today. It is cool here so
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:53 PM
Mar 2012

it is possible that many are not unusual.

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
7. Yes, but it has been rainy and cold in LA so I can't determine
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 05:55 PM
Mar 2012

whether it is a political statement or just a response to the weather.

pscot

(21,024 posts)
9. It's like when you decide to buy a new car
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 06:44 PM
Mar 2012

As soon as you settle on the new Tohatsu Run-Pet, you start seeing them everywhere.

 

quinnox

(20,600 posts)
10. No
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 06:46 PM
Mar 2012

Personally I would never wear a hoodie, and think they look stupid. That is one fashion trend I could do without.

Stinky The Clown

(67,808 posts)
12. The CC wire services picked this story up within minutes of it being posted here. Everyone wave!
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 07:07 PM
Mar 2012

Hi there fellas! Gal. Frank.

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,70937.0.html

Were I to post "Aglasammauck cona ditklin, eranacious terabidatty, rihgts?" and one of those morons would be all over it as if it mattered.

Frank, even here, in "the third most wealthy county in the US", we have more diversity than you do in your unabomber-like cabin up there on the roof of Nebraska, so can the shit and get a new schitck. In fact, instead of a new schtick, get a life that involves human contact.

applegrove

(118,682 posts)
13. I worked in a university campus bookstore that sold clothes four years ago. The hoodies were
Mon Mar 26, 2012, 09:30 PM
Mar 2012

by far the most popular 'gear' sold to the young adults. By far.

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